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How does the Scorpene compare in capability to German subs like the Type 214? I remember reading an article a while back from a South Korean navy officer about the South Korean submarine program He said that when South Korea did their evaluation many decades ago they went with the German sub...

India did not really have the financial resources. It was a very poor country until very recently and investing 10s of billions on a jet engine program was proabably too much for it to afford. It takes tens of billions of dollars to develop a new engine. India spent like less than 2 billion on...

A single Rafale cost around 100 million euroes. So a single SIGMA could buy you maybe 4 Rafales.

Air power is great but it is also expensive just like navy ships are expensive. If you just need to defend then land based anti-ship missiles work fine as an area denial strategy and are much cheaper to deploy in large numbers. Ukraine sunk a Russian Cruiser a few months ago with just two...

The LRASM would be great but probably not available.

Land based anti-ship missiles would work well enough and are cheaper. Also the airforce isn't big enough if you want to rely on air launched missiles. What type of air launched missiles do we even have?

I saw a post by a former US Navy sailor who was talking about why the Arleigh Burke-class is powered by 4 GE LM2500 gas turbines. He said that gas turbines required less maintenance and had a much better power to weight ratio. So the weight saved by using gas turbines instead of large diesels...

Why the obsession with Diesel instead of Gas Turbines?

Well the ship does have aircraft in it. It's just that the MiG-29Ks have only been used for handling trails so far. That's what aircraft crew on board have been doing. Practicing moving the MiG-29Ks around and loading them on the elevators. Aircraft carriers are usually commissioned before...

Major Defect found on South Korean Submarine "According to a report submitted by People Power Party National Assembly Member Shin Wonsik major defects have been found on all nine of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN)’s Son Won-il class" How credible is this report? Could it be the reason for the...